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 2024 Tours

6 Day Birdsville Races (Camping Tour - September 4th - 9th, 2024) (5 Seats Available)

* All tours are either:
 - Camping
 - Accommodated options available
 - Single Supplement applies to accommodated tours only

* Tour Inclusions:
- All meals
- Standard accommodation/camping equipment (excluding sleeping bag and pillow)
- Camping fees
- Entry to museums and places of interest
- All transfers from and to Adelaide accommodation
- Arkaroola Ridgetop Tour
- National Park fees

12 Days 11 Nights Tour

Day 1

  • Depart Adelaide 0730hrs
  • Travel via, Clare, Melrose, Wilmington and Hawker.
  • Visit historic Sevenhill Winery and church, Kanyaka ruin and more.
  • Overnight: Rawnsley Park

Day 2

  • Travel via Wilpena Pound, Bunyeroo and Barchina Gorges. Beltana, Copley and Lyndhurst
  • Visit Beltana historic Town and the famous Quandong Cafe for an outback delight.
  • Overnight: Lyndhurst

Day 3

  • Visit Talc Alf and Aboriginal Ochre pits
  • Stopping at places of interest along the way such the old Mulka HS Ruins, Clayton Station wetland, hot flowing artesian bores and Wetlands and Mungerannie Roadhouse.
  • Overnight: Mungerannie

Day 4

  • In Birdsville visit a museum, the Diamantina River the Birdsville Pub and other sites around town.
  • Overnight: Birdsville

Day 5

  • Venture west to the eastern edge of the Simpson Desert and see Big Red The largest of 1500 sand dunes encountered when doing the Desert
    Crossing.
  • Overnight: Birdsville

Day 6

  • Travel through remote areas of southern Queensland and NE South Australia.
  • Visit Australia’s largest shearing shed.
  • Visit the Burke & Wills dig tree and see the famous Cooper Creek flowing through these remote desert areas
  • Overnight: Nappa Merrie

Day 7

  • Travel through the Innamincka regional reserve to Coongie Lakes
  • Visit an outback oasis that becomes the breading ground for numerous species of water birds during a wet season.
  • Overnight: Innamincka

Day 8

  • At Innamincka visit the restored Elizabeth Symon Nursing Home a branch of John Flynn’s Australian Inland Mission the birth of the Royal Flying Doctor service, Burke’s Grave, the town common and Cullyamurra Waterhole.
  • Overnight: Innamincka

Day 9

  • Drive down theStrzelecki Track made famous by Harry Redford who drove a 1000 stolen cattle south and sold them at the historic Blanchewater Station.
  • We pass by the Moomba Gas fields and then onto Monte Collina artesian bore. Take a dip in the hot artesian water.
  • Continue on past Mount Hopeless to Arkaroola
  • Overnight: Arkaroola

Day 10

  • Take the famous Rodgetop 4WD Tour and other drives around the area
  • Overnight: Arkaroola

Day 11

  • Visiting Mt Chambers aboriginal art site
  • Blinman copper mine and Peterborough a historic town on the Indian – Pacific Railway.
  • View Sth Australia’s Great Wall of China, 500yr old Gum tree and experience 360o panoramas of the Flinders Ranges
  • Overnight: Peterborough.

Day 12

  • Travel via the Barrier Highway to Adelaide. Stop of at many historic railway towns of the Indian Pacific line visit the historic copper mining town of Burra and meander through the Barossa Valley.
  • Return Adelaide approx 1800hrs


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